Original Painting by Cakkie Lou
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 1350×900mm
Cakkie Lou (Catherine Coster) - Heratini, Geraldine
My art is strongly shaped by this connection to wild places and the freedom and emotion it inspires within me. I am never as strong or as free or as deeply human as when I am fossicking and painting pictures in and of the natural world. I believe this freedom and the powerful energy of life force both within and without permeates my work. My landscape paintings are always metaphorical in concept, highlighting both the resilience and grace in life.
My main medium is oil paint due to the richness of colour and being able to work with layers, building them up and scraping them back to achieve a symbolical rawness. I apply paint in a quick energetic, expressive manner, with bold gestural marks letting the work unfold organically.
I am keenly aware of the loss of man’s connectedness to the Creator and Creation in our world. This is often seen in our disregard for the natural environment. I use landscape elements and occasionally allegorical iconography to showcase this struggle and to highlight humanities need for wild places.
I have been inspired by artists such as William Turner, Anslem Kiefer and Euan Macleod who use landscape to symbolise man’s quest for the spiritual and our place in the greater cosmos.
Original Painting by Cakkie Lou
Mixed Media on Canvas
Dimensions: 1350×900mm
Cakkie Lou (Catherine Coster) - Heratini, Geraldine
My art is strongly shaped by this connection to wild places and the freedom and emotion it inspires within me. I am never as strong or as free or as deeply human as when I am fossicking and painting pictures in and of the natural world. I believe this freedom and the powerful energy of life force both within and without permeates my work. My landscape paintings are always metaphorical in concept, highlighting both the resilience and grace in life.
My main medium is oil paint due to the richness of colour and being able to work with layers, building them up and scraping them back to achieve a symbolical rawness. I apply paint in a quick energetic, expressive manner, with bold gestural marks letting the work unfold organically.
I am keenly aware of the loss of man’s connectedness to the Creator and Creation in our world. This is often seen in our disregard for the natural environment. I use landscape elements and occasionally allegorical iconography to showcase this struggle and to highlight humanities need for wild places.
I have been inspired by artists such as William Turner, Anslem Kiefer and Euan Macleod who use landscape to symbolise man’s quest for the spiritual and our place in the greater cosmos.
